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Welcome to The Website of Far-Cue.Far-Cue are playing The George at Woolley, Bradford-On-Avon TONIGHT.(May 8th) Unexpected but true nevertheless Far-Cue at The Three Horseshoes, Bradford-On-Avon, May 7th. (That’s tonight by the way...) Work begins next week on a Far-Cue film. It’ll be the story of the band by the people who can vaguely remember it. Sadly, there is precious little footage of Far-Cue’s gigs going around. There’s the odd bit here and there on Youtube, and that’s about it. Fret ye not though, as there’ll be plenty of other audially visual treats for you to wrap your respective sensory organs around. There is a chance that the film will be released with a collection of new songs. Kind of like an enhanced disc type affair. OR. It will be put up on the net for free. OR. I’ll put so much work into it there’s no way i’ll give it away for free and i’ll make you pay if you want to see it. So yes, interviews start next week and look out for a trailer soon... Another Far-Cue rehearsal video. The point of these audio / visual thrills is to illustrate just how boring and frustrating rehearsing / song writing can be, and - in contrast - just how splendid they can become when you find the right hook / chord change / melody / vocal line... So as you can see, some gigs have been added to the section appropriately titled ’Gigs’. Hang on, no its not. Its called ’When Can I See Far-Cue Again...?’ Either way, just go and look. I polished the pixels myself. Its been a hard few years gig wise. Things just aren’t the same. We used to gig every week and it seemed to be effortless. Not the gigs, i mean the getting of the gigs. These days live music is on it’s arse. A whole lot of moaning that there’s nothing going on, but the fact is there’s plenty going on, you just don’t want to make the effort. This whole smoking ban has done precisely FUCK all to help either. Bands having to suffer the indignity of people walking out mid-set to satisfy their craving for a legal narcotic. And for what? To ’protect’ people’s health? If you take a job in a pub or restaurant and start moaning about second hand smoke you’re an idiot. It’s like taking a job down a mine when you’re claustrophobic. No, i suspect the whole thing was another valiant attempt by New Labour to nanny the state and ensure the UK follows the USA in everything it does. Hot damn honky. But let’s not wallow in this stuff. This site is a place of mirth, merriment, and many many examples of punk rock chicanery! GIGS. BELOW. COME TO ONE. COME TO ALL. Back from rehearsals, and though i hang my head and admit to forgetting the vidyo camera, i’m pleased to report that a song has been constructed. The new song is called ’ Over and Out ’ and features lush vocal arrangements over tidy chord changes. I’m even more pleased to report that a further two rehearsals have been booked, so we’re almost definitely probably maybe sure of getting at least two songs out of this rehearsal malarkey. With numerous albums behind us, it can be difficult to find new inspiration for writing a song. This time myself and Guy came up with a set of chords, and in order to generate lyrics, we passed a piece of paper around and each and every member scrawled down some lyrics. A line each, which was then altered and mutilated until it proper fit the ’ scat ’ of the song. This method seemed to work well, and means each member of the band contributes something lyric wise. It’s also suprising how the song can appear to have a theme, despite it being written by 3 different people. So now the ears are ringing, and it’s a stark reminder to wear plugs kidz. If you truly love music, you’ll want to continue listening to it to a ripe old age. I’m sure some people will claim you to be homosexual if you confess to wearing ear plugs but don’t panic! Your plugs will mean you cannot hear their piss takery, and in a few years, they won’t be able to hear their own piss takery, so you’re on to a winner all round. Speaking for myself, because i’d really rather not speak for you, i’d like to gain ten new songs out of these rehearsals. I’d even consider recording them, but for now they just need to be broken in with a live gig. You can rehearse until your fingers bleed and your money runs out, but the real test of a songs mettle, and whether or not you can play it, is when you present it to an un-impressed audience. It’s like taking the song’s cherry. It’s like you’ve groomed the song over the internet and now you’re about to meet up, pack of 6 in your backpack. It’s like anally raping the song down a back alley, wary of security cameras. Yes, it’s a lot of fun breaking in songs. Personally, i’d do it twice over the course of a set, but then i have stamina. So we now have a nice, shouty sing alongy type song to dump in the set. While i would love to fill the set with shouty sing alongy type numbers, this is not possible. We are not the Dropkick Murphys. So the next song must become its own entity, its own thing. And i look forward to discovering just what that thing is. So i have a theory. I actually have a theory on most things, so just ask and i’ll supply you with one. Email address below. Anyway, my friend Nik Wilcox and his band Landscapes recently took to travelling to Germany to play some shows. I can only recommend this to everyone. Germany is a wondrous land, its inhabitants are mostly lovely, its scenery splendid and its beer bountiful. On top of this, the Germans really appreciate live music. They come out in droves and ensure they have a ruddy good time when they are out. Whilst its great that Nik and his mob went to Germany to play, both for his band and the experience, i’m also chuffed as it means i have someone to talk to about just how different it is over there. It’s hard to tell someone that it’s much better playing in Europe without sounding like a rock star, bragging about the fact that you play in Europe. So i have a theory. We’ve thought - for some time now - that audiences in Britain are becoming particularly lame. Oh we can’t blame you. Look around. This country is on its knees. Thwon to the floor Centuwion by New Labour. Petrol is at an all time high, beer prices are the same. Both just keep getting higher. They say you shouldn’t drink and drive, i’m suprised anyone can afford to. Every thing you enjoy in life they’ll find it, then they’ll tax it, then you won’t be able to afford to do it anymore. So you’ll give up all this money, and still the roads are shit, still you’ll get made redundant, still you’ll have to wait 5 weeks for NHS treatment, and still those that don’t want to contribute will get the pick of your cash. Wule Bwtiannia. Yes, Britain is in a pretty poor state but then it was at the end of the 70’s when the last Labour government had been given every chance but still fucked it up royally. Still let’s not get all political. You may well support Gordon Brown, to which i say the very best of luck to you. So this theory of mine. Have any of you ever heard of Kitty Genovese? She was a young woman minding her own business in the New York borough of Queens. Whilst heading to her apartment she was attacked and repeatedly stabbed. She did manage to scream and stagger towards her apartment building, but sadly she died. There were MANY witnesses to the event, but no-one intervened, no-one phoned the police, no-one helped. I know what you’re thinking. "I bloody well would have!"....well chances are you bloody well wouldn’t have. You see, we’re now finally getting to the point. After this attack, it so stunned some social psychologists that they conducted their own experiments into why people turned the other cheek rather than picked up the telephone. They found that when faced with an uncommon event, people look to others for clues on how to behave. Unfortunately, you can think of this as a circle: I’m doing nothing until i discover an indication of how to behave, so i look to you. You’re doing nothing because you’re looking to me for an indication of how to behave. And on it goes. SO. Let’s apply the whole thing to a Far-Cue gig. Which is, after all, an uncommon event. People at the gig last night were not used to seeing a band such as Far-Cue. It would surely not have bothered them if they never did. The music alone would have been bad enough for their ears, but Badger decided to sport his thong last night, so now we have both visual and auditory offensives. When faced with this abomination, they look to each other for clues on how to react and find themselves wanting. We genuniely expected this reaction, and as with all things Far-Cue, we laugh at it. It’s a gift. We acutally played really well, and i like to think it’s psyched us up for the rehearsals on Monday. I’ve even half wrote a song in anticipation. So congrats to the newly weds yesterday, i hope the party got very messy after i exited. Isn’t it annoying when people want to spell EXCITED, and instead they write EXITED. I AM SO EXITED!!!! Are you. Are you really. Say it back to yourself. Go on. Now say the real word. Different isn’t it? In other Far-Cue headlines, there’s chatterings, mumurings and mutterings of another Newquay gig in July / August time, so get yer Speedos out. Check back and i’ll tell you how the rehearsal went on Monday... Salutations, Had to blow some serious dust from the pixels on this update page malarkey thing. They’re all sparkly now. You’ll find vinegar, salt water, Lemon juice and Windowlene an effective hang-over cure. But i digress. Far-Cue have been a band for sumfink loike....14 years now, and in that time we’ve done a lot. SO much, that i’ve started a book about it. In my head. It’s a great read, and one so full of suspense it’s like Alfred Hitchcock having botty sex with Dan Brown whilst M.Night Shyamalan looks on holding his middle wicket. Trouble is, while so much has happened to this bunch of hard rocking amigos, it was usually done under the influence of booze and drugs, and therefore completely erased from my memory banks. I’d ask Badger but he doesn’t remember where he put himself, and has embarked on a long journey to discover his final resting place. As i sit, i feel relieved that i don’t have piles, but more than that, i am excited to report that Far-Cue’s punk rock chicanery is starting again. Members of this band, upon joining, are issued with a ’Little Black Book’. I say issued with, they go to W H Smiths and talk to a lady - usually called Joan - about acquiring such a book and exchange money for it. Inside this LBB is a list of all Far-Cue gigs up and coming, and those gone by. Sadly, these days, the books are really rather empty. Not good enough. Things must start again, but the best way to start again is with the music. And so say all of me. To this end, Far-Cue have booked time at a ’rehearsal room’. From this, we hope to combine riffs, chord changes and lyrics into a pile of slop known as a ’song’. Some will be originals, and some will be original takes on songs that are originals but are now....not. Around this time of year, i get asked if we’ll be playing Glastonbury again. To that i say HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA......then i pause for breath, then i repeat. I’m afraid kidz, Glastonbury is not your friend. It is an arse. It is an abomination. It is everything it set out not to be. It is hypocritical. It is stinky. It makes a mockery of a sham in it’s own name. It is fuelled by credit cards and corporations. It is not somewhere we want to play. However, if someone were to ask us, we’d jump at the chance. Until that time, we’ll simply continue thumbing our collective noses at it, and telling them that if you cut us we bleed tartan. Of course, the chance of anyone asking us to play Glastonbury again are so remote it’s completely amazing. To those who scoffed when we stated that we are free to play ’Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs and Re-incarnations’ i say Yah-Boo sucks to you, as tonight Far-Cue play a wedding reception. Some think a marriage to be nothing more than a union before God between two people who have found their soul mate to guide them through the ups and downs of life. Just so you know. Tonight there’ll be crisps, cakes, milk and iced-gems, and some talcum powder on the floor so Badger can dance. I would be dancing but i’m so bad it would make your eyelashes ache. There is a faint idea that new songs will be placed together and recorded, then put out as an ’album’, Or an Ep. No, not an Ep. Ep’s are made by bands too shit to write enough songs for an album. Whatever happens, old songs must be lifted from the set to facilitate the inclusion of new ones. I can assure you, it WILL be your favourite song that goes missing. I make no apologies for this, you should have come to more gigs, then you’d have heard it more. Before i go, Badger would like to make it clear just how sorry he is for his performance at the last Wheatsheaves gig. While my back was turned, he sneaked off to the bar for a few ales, and these ales subsequently affected both his playing, and his fragile and delicate state of mind. Badger has now enroled with AA because they’re cheaper than Green Flag. And now i’m off to the cloakroom to get me coat. I MAY, and i make no promises here, i MAY film some of Far-Cue’s up and coming rehearsals, just to give you people an insight into writing punk rock compositions. You’ll find it visually stimulating i’m sure. I have even secured the warm cockney larynx of one Phil Daniels to provide the voice over in a Richard Attenbugger stylee. So, keep it turned up to 11. The sooner you go deaf the sooner you have an excuse for being ignorant. Do keep popping back. Don’t be a stranger. Gigs will appear. Songs will be pulled from backsides and slowly but surely we’ll all get too old for this. Splodge, i’m talking to you. Farewell. Brown out. Absolutely anyone else...in. PEE ESS. IF you were to travel to the Forum on this site, you’d discover TO YOUR HORROR, that it has been overtaken by a bunch of ’people’ attempting to satisfy your lust for pornography, or to increase the size of your humiliatingly small member. If you need either of these things, please do go to the Forum and take notes. I would, but i’m beyond help. The rest of you, if you’d have used my lovely Forum in the first place, this never would have happened. I hope some heads are hanging...and if they are you could probably make use of the section in the Forum on Viagra. Okay so i’ve had some rumblings lately about people not being able to get hold of any of Far-Cue’s music, so i’ve cobbled together a collection of our stuff. If you want one to give Granny this Xmas, just click the paypal button below, stump up a fiver, and we’ll send one to you. It’s all cheap and cheerful, dont go expecting a full colour booklet coz you ain’t getting it. You’ll get the tracks, which is enough to put a smile on anyone’s mush. Those tracks are; 1- Cunt in a mirror 2- We U They 3- Jiggy 4- Wombles 5- Bananas 6- Buy Me ( And Stop One ) 7- Summat To Say 8- Always A Pleasure, Never A Chore 9- Punkin C 10- Karaoke 11- Fist In Pocket 12- Let It Go 13- Kiss My Arse 14- Waiting 15- Bord Yet 16- Toccata 17- Bollox Head on over to the myspace (www.myspace.com/farcue) page if you want to see a fancy advert of it. For some reason the web site didn’t like me putting it up here. If it goes well, i’ll start putting all the albums we’ve done up. Except for Another Day At The Office, because we don’t own that.... And IF for some reason the Paypal link doesn’t work ( because i’m new to all this ), then i believe the same result can be obtained by having the email address stevefarcue@hotmail.com, and going from there.... IF you want to get your hands on the Far-Cue Xmas EP so’s you can enjoy it over this festive period, i’ve now uploaded it onto ejunkie. You can click the link below and down load it immediately, if not sooner. It comes zipped up in a .rar format. If you have winrar you’re cool, if not i think winzip can open it up for you too. Here’s a buy it now button;  Any problems feel free to contact me. Ejunkie deals with Paypal m’kay? The track listing is as follows; - Mary’s Boy Child - Rock N Roll Christmas - Do They Know It’s Christmas - Jingle Bells - Mistletoe & Wine - Walking In The Air - Last Christmas - 12 Days Of Christmas - Lonely This Xmas If you want a hard copy of this, that is, a CD in your hands type affair, it’s also available from lulu.com. Follow this link; http://www.lulu.com/content/compact-disc/the-christmas-ep/7998812 And they’ll sort you out. The other albums will eventually be released in this manner, but i thought i’d start with the Xmas one since tis the season. Any comments please to steve@farcue.co.uk
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